quavering
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]quavering
- present participle and gerund of quaver
Adjective
[edit]quavering (not comparable)
- Trembling, or prone to trembling and shaking.
Noun
[edit]quavering (plural quaverings)
- The act of something that quavers.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes